Let’s talk about how to thread up for a twin needle.
You’re going to need two spools of thread.
I’m just going to go ahead and put my next one right up here and I am going to unthread
the first one.
When you come around with your hands, we’re going to go ahead and take them in our hands
together, go around the normal part but when you get right here you’re going to stop.
You notice there’s a little metal fin in there?
We’re going to go ahead and place one thread on the right side, one thread on the left
side.
That way they’ll each get their own tensions.
Then just put them in your hand together, thread the rest of the machine.
Now when you get down to the needle we are going to need to thread this manually, so
the needle threader’s not going to line up to the twin needle.
Let’s do flat side to the back.
This one happens to be 2.5 mm.
I’m a little tight in here.
There we go.
First thing we’re going to do before we do anything is pick a straight stitch.
I always start with a straight stitch.
Go into the set menu and arrow down until you see twin needle.
First thing, touch OK.
That’s going to put a little X in the box.
Now you will move it to the size of twin needle you are using, so I’m using a 2.5 so we’ll
go down to 3.0, 2.5.
It will go … as a small a size you can get is a 1.6 and you can go all the way up to
a 6.0 double needle.
It looks pretty big.
It’s gigantic.
Let’s talk about some of the things that you can use a twin needle for.
Touch the tools function or the set menu and that will take it out.
What’s nice is it will show on screen that you have a twin needle selected and what size.
It will also allow us or not allow us … let’s say we’re on a zigzag and we go to make
it wider.
It’s going to stop and not let me accidentally go past the maximum stitch width that it will
do.
It’s also nice is when we turn off the machine and turn it back on, let’s say the last
thing you did was with the twin needle.
You took it off but you did not reset it.
The message that’s going to come up before you even get to the stitches is being set
for twin needle.
Oh yeah, that’s right.
I need to turn that off.
Go back into the set menu and reset it by unchecking the box.
We are all set so on a straight stitch we just need to manually, get your good eyes
out, and thread these needles up.
It doesn’t matter which thread goes in which needle.
You’ll also see that sometimes they want to kind of twist on each other down towards
that needle.
It doesn’t really matter.
Don’t worry about it.
Go ahead and thread it up.
Let’s talk about some of the things you’d use a twin needle for.
One of the most obvious is the cover stitch like on your t-shirts.
You might see at the hem there’s two rows of stitching.
This needle will simulate that type of look on a knit garment.
Just go ahead and get the stretch version of these stitches and you can do that on a
hem.
Let’s just go ahead.
I’m going to start off and make sure I’ve got everything threaded up correctly with
a few stitches here.
I usually start off with some maybe slower than normal stitches.
There’s my locking stitches.
You can really tell right away if you’ve got it threaded up incorrectly or not.
Being that we’re using two different kinds of thread, two different colors, it’s really
kind of fun.
You can use the selective thread cutter with a twin needle.
It’ll work just great.
Here’s your two rows of stitches.
On the back it’s going to look like a zigzag.
Well of course because your bobbin is catching both needles and it’s going back and forth.
Why don’t we try it with some decorative stitches?
I said in the decorative stitch video we could double all of our stitches because of what
we’re capable of doing.
Let’s go ahead and we’re just going to go over to … let’s do row three stitch
number 36.
I just randomly picked a stitch and we’ll go ahead and sew it.
There is going to be some that aren’t going to look as good because they’re really,
really thick.
If you’ll notice up here where they have a lot of like the stitches are close together,
the satin stitches.
Sometimes that gets a little full with the twin needle.
I like to stick to stitches that are more open, lacy, not so heavy because all the sudden
you have a stitch that looks totally different.
We’ll sew a little bit here.
Give you an idea.
Oh that’s fun.
Every time we do this we see different combinations of stitches and colors because I’ve seen
some where you do a dark on one side and a light on the other and you get a different
look than something more like here, a blended color.
Kind of the purple and blue is very soft together.
How about … I’m going to just randomly pick another stitch.
I have no idea what it’s going to look like.
Let’s see here, what should we do?
How about row three?
That one looks fun.
Row three, 52.
We’ll pick row three, 52.
See if I had had all these stitches sewn out I would know what they look like.
While you have your twin needle on why don’t you take some time and stitch out all your
stitches one more time?
This one’s a little heavier so once again I’m going to just take my time until I feel
like I really have everything going right.
Like I said, sometimes I slow things down.
You can use the speed minus here so it’s not going so fast.
You could even drop that speed down and then even do the start/stop button so you don’t
even have to hold your foot on the foot control.
That’s always nice.
That’s as fast as it’s going.
We could speed it up just a little bit.
Let’s go ahead and we’ll stop that, use our selective thread cutter, see what we have
here.
Ooh, look at that.
How fun would that be to surprise yourself with all the decorative stitches sewn out
with a twin needle?
Now different size twin needles will give you different looks because the stitches will
spread themselves out or be closer together depending on how close the needles are.
It’s kind of fun.
Last thing we’re going to do, we’re going to go take off the twin needle and then also
take off the setting.
We’ll come right down here down to twin needle.
It’s got an X in the box.
We’re going to OK that which will take the box unchecked.
Touch tools to get out of that and don’t forget to take that twin needle off because
if you leave it on at that widest setting your machine doesn’t know you’ve got a
twin needle on so the needles actually hovering over the edge of the foot which means if you
sew you will break the needle and we don’t want that.
Enjoy.
Have fun with all the extra stitches and don’t forget they actually make triple needles too.
What fun would that be?